Check out some screenshots of this in action from Rafe Needleman from CNET's News Blog. Question for Gmail/IMAP users: If a message has TWO labels, does it appear in both folders in your IMAP client? Answer: Yes! Also, if email is sent from the desktop, it gets the Sent label and appears in your inbox.

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Gmail's supported IMAP client list includes Thunderbird, Mail.app, Eudora, Outlook Express/2003/2007 and Windows Mail, as well as the iPhone.

That's great news for iPhone users. No more marking as read twice, or not being able to work with labels. Here's a video courtesy of Google on how to set up and use IMAP on your iPhone.

Having been a loyal IMAP user for years before switching over to full time web-only access to Gmail, this is a very exciting option. I may resurrect my desktop client again for true synchronized Gmail use! You try out Gmail's IMAP support? Thoughts? Let us know how it goes in the comments.